The Turing Foundation

The Turing Foundation aims to let people in The Netherlands enjoy art.

The Turing Foundation therefor supports expositions of paintings , live performances of classical music , and publications or recitals of Dutch poetry in The Netherlands.

More information on submitting an application on one of these working areas can be found in our application procedures . Below, you will find an impression of the most important initiatives that we have previously supported.

Also see:

The Turing Art Grant

The Turing National Poetry Competition

The Art Agenda

Most recent projects:

March 2010	*Main supporter Diane Arbus - A Retrospective, FOAM Amsterdam* Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is one of the most fascinating and important photographers of the second half of the 20th read more...	March 2010	Main supporter Louise Bourgeois / Hans Bellmer - Double Sexus, Den Haag Municipal Museum Louise Bourgeois (1911) is regarded as one of the most important artists still alive today. read more...
March 2010	*Music performance Who will tame the king?, 2010-2011* The Apollo Ensemble has specialized in baroque performances played with authentic instruments. In Who will tame the read more...	March 2010	Main patronage of the Ricciotti Ensemble 2010-2012 The Ricciotti Ensemble consists of 40 idealistic conservatory students, and performs a minimum of 100 times a year. They seek out read more...
March 2010	Rotterdam Opera days 2010: Alla Turca The Rotterdam Opera days were founded in 2001 to make opera accessible to everyone. For ten days straight there will be concerts on read more...	March 2010	The Princess Christina Concours - Classical Express, 2010-2012 The Princess Christina Concours strives to excite as many children as possible for classical music. To that end, in read more...
March 2010	Main Supporter of the Community Concerts of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, 2010 To make classical music more easily accessible to everyone, at least 30 concerts a year are played at unexpected venues for an audience that read more...	March 2010	*Poetry in literary magazine De Gids* 2010 The Dutch cultural and literary magazine read more...**
January 2010	Matisse to Malevich, Pioneers of modern art, Hermitage, Amsterdam, 2010 In Spring 2010, the Amsterdam Hermitage organises an exhibition of 75 master pieces by artists like read more...	January 2010	*Main supporter 'How I Got There': Dongen's Road to Success, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, 2010-2011* Starting in September 2010, the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum will read more...

Painting
The Turing Foundation aims to let people in
The Netherlands enjoy expositions of paintings

Main supporter Diane Arbus - A Retrospective, FOAM Amsterdam
Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is one of the most fascinating and important photographers of the second half of the 20th century. Never before have The Netherlands exhibited an extensive retrospective of her work and it is unlikely to happen again anytime soon. It is especially the choice and quality of the works on display (mainly vintage prints, printed by the artist herself) that give the exhibition its extraordinary quality. This FOAM project has been nominated with the Turing Art Grant 2009.

With a €50,000 patronage, the Turing Foundation is the main patron of the exhibition, enabling FOAM to enter into a contract to realise this ambitious project. Diane Arbus - A retrospective will be on display from 25 October 2012 - 13 January 2013 in FOAM.

Diane Arbus: Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967

Main supporter Louise Bourgeois / Hans Bellmer - Double Sexus, Den Haag Municipal Museum
Louise Bourgeois (1911) is regarded as one of the most important artists still alive today. She was recently honoured with large-scale exhibitions in Tate Modern and the Centre Pompidou. The Den Haag Municipal Museum, in association with the Berlin National Museum, wants to confront her work with that of German artist Hans Bellmer (1902-1975). It was only in 2006 that the Centre Pompidou did an extensive retrospective of Bellmer. Both artists find their origin in the surrealist tradition, their work displaying a search for identity, the relationship between men and women and a fascination for the human body. This exhibition is the first to show works of these two international artists in the Netherlands.

With a €50,000 donation, the Turing Foundation will be the exhibition's main patron. Double Sexus will be on display from 11 September 2010 until 16 January 2011 in the Den Haag Municipal Museum.

Louise Bourgeois: Fragile Goddess, 2002

Matisse to Malevich, Pioneers of modern art, Hermitage, Amsterdam, 2010
In Spring 2010, the Amsterdam Hermitage organises an exhibition of 75 master pieces by artists like Picasso, Kandinsky, Van Dongen and Matisse. This exhibition presents a beautiful overview of modernism, featuring many works of art that have not been exhibited before in the Netherlands. The Turing Foundation specifically contributes to the loan of one masterpiece in this exhibition that is hardly ever brought to other museums.

By donating € 100,000, the Turing Foundation is the main sponsor of this exhibition, which will run from March to September 2010.

The Red Room (Harmony in Red), Matisse, 1908

Main supporter 'How I Got There': Dongen's Road to Success, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, 2010-2011
Starting in September 2010, the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum will present an overview of the works of painter Kees van Dongen (1877-1968). This exhibition will focus on the development of Van Dongen's career as a painter and the influence his Paris canvases had on his entire work. Several unique loans will be brought to the Netherlands especially for this project. Apart from paintings, approximately 25 drawings will be on display too.

By donating € 75,000, the Turing Foundation will be the main contributor to this exhibition.

Kees van Dongen, Vinger aan de wang, 1910, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Illusion and Reality - Van Gogh Museum, 2010-2011
On 8 October 2010 an exhibition of Naturalist painting will be opened at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, presenting huge paintings from collections all over the world. Never before has Naturalism been showcased on such a scale in the Netherlands. The way it is combined with photography and film from that period is most appropriate. The exhibition heralds a reassessment and rediscovery of these paintings, which were considered masterpieces in their time. It will be a unique and attractive exhibition that appeals to a large audience, giving a fine portrait of the era. In May 2009 this project was nominated for the Turing Award 2009.

The Turing Foundation donates € 100,000 towards Illusion and Reality; from 8 October 2010 to 23 January 2011 at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

Illusie en Werkelijkheid - Van Gogh Museum

Vincent van Gogh: the artist and his letters, 2009-2010
Vincent van Gogh is one of the most important artists of all times. Apart from his many exceptional paintings and drawings, he also left behind one of the most fascinating artist’s correspondences we know of. After years of intensive research the Van Gogh Museum publishes Vincent van Gogh’s letters in a ‘definitive version’: 2,240 pages in 6 bound volumes, with high-quality reproductions of the originals and illustrations of all 2,000 works of art Vincent van Gogh referred to in his letters - whether these be his own works or the works of others. Furthermore, as of 9 October 2009 the Van Gogh Museum will organise an exhibition around the letters and the works the letters refer to. And a new scientific website gives access to the results of the project.

The Turing Foundation contributes € 200,000 to the publication of the letters, avaialble as of 9 October 2009.

One of the Van Gogh letters

Main supporter Theo van Doesburg and the Avant-Garde, de Lakenhal, Leiden, 2009-2010
Theo van Doesburg still inspires many contemporary artists. The exhibition Constructing a New World: Theo van Doesburg and the Avant-Garde in De Lakenhal shows his perception and his time. Apart from hundreds of works by Van Doesburg himself, art works are shown by more than 70 contemporaries who directly or indirectly influenced him, like Mondriaan, Moholy-Nagy, Schwitters and Lissitzky. Half of the more than 400 art works in total have never been shown before in the Netherlands.

By donating € 85,000, the Turing Foundation is the main sponsor of this exhibition, which will be on display in Leiden from 16 October 2009 until 3 January 2010. In January 2010 it will travel on to partner museum Tate Modern in London.

Georges Vantongerloo, Study, 1920 (Oil, 52 x 61.5 cm)

Main supporter Bram and Geer van Velde, Museum Belvédère, Friesland, 2010
The Belvédère Museum is preparing an exhibition on the work of artists and brothers Bram and Geer van Velde. The focus of the exhibition will be on the development phase of both artists. It shows how the two brothers have inspired and influenced each other, at the same time drawing on the achievements of modern art surrounding them, and eventually developing their very own modes and styles. The exhibition will feature paintings and works on paper, including loans from private collections in the Netherlands and abroad and from Dutch and international museums.

The Turing Foundation donates € 11,800 towards this exhibition, which is the remainder of an earlier donation to the Belvédère Museum.

Geer van Velde in the Belvédère Museum, Friesland

Turing Car for the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum and the Chabot Museum 2009-2010
Free of charge, comfortable and safe transport turns out to be the primary factor to break down the barriers for schools to take their children on a visit to a museum. The Turing Foundation will therefore finance a special ‘Turing Car’ until 2010, that will transport children from Rotterdam and surroundings to and from the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and the Chabot Museum free of charge. On top of that, each child will also receive a Turing Museum Ticket, with which the child can return to the museum free of charge together with an adult. This project has the ambition to ultimately have each pupil from each primary school in the Rotterdam region go to these museums at least once in their school career.

The Turing Foundation initiated this project in 2007 and invests € 140,000 into it until 2010.

The first ride of the 'Turingcar', 1 october 2008

The Turing Art Grant 2009 - Mike Kelley, a retrospective, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2010-2011
The exhibition concept Mike Kelley, A Retrospective 1973 - 2010, submitted by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, has won the Turing Art Grant 2009-2010. The Turing Art Grant is a €450,000 donation to be awarded biennially to a Dutch museum for an exceptional exhibition concept. Sixteen museums submitted concepts. The Mike Kelley retrospective was deemed best in quality, originality, and concept.

Mike Kelley is regarded as one of the most important artists to enter the art scene since the seventies. His work is technically varied, complex in both form and content, and has strong psychical and emotional undertones. A complete solo exhibition of this Californian artist has never before been organised in the Netherlands. It promises to become a both fascinating and inspirational event, due to the work itself as well as to the way it will be presented - hopefully a sign of the new policy of the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum. The exhibition can be expected to make a large new audience to become interested in modern art.

More information about the Turing Art Grant can be found on the Turing Art Grant Website.

The Turing Art Grant 2009 for the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Main supporter "Made in Holland", Mauritshuis, The Hague, 2010-2011
In the Autumn of 2010 the Mauritshuis plans to organise an exhibition of 40 Dutch masterworks from the Golden Age that are part of an American private collection. The paintings will include works by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Jan Lievens, Adriaen Backer, and Aelbert Cuyp. The works are all in striking good condition and represent a large variety of genres, such as portraits, animals, so-called 'Italianists' (painters inspired by the Italian landscape) and marine art. For the first time ever a large selection of these painting will be on show in Europe.

By contributing € 70,000, the Turing Foundation is the exhibition's main supporter. The exhibition is scheduled from 4 November 2010 to 13 January 2011.

Portrait of Aeltje Uylenburgh, 1632

Main supporter Anton Mauve exhibitions, Singer Museum, Laren and Teylers Museum, Haarlem, 2009-2010
In the Autumn of 2009 The Singer Museum in Laren and the Teylers Museum in Haarlem will simultaneously present a special exhibition of the popularly acclaimed painter Anton Mauve (1838-1888).

The Haarlem exhibition will focus on the development of Mauve's artistry from student to master, his religious background and the relationship between Mauve and Van Gogh.

In the Laren exhibition the emphasis will be on Mauve's influence on the genesis of the so-called "Laren School of Painting" and on realising a retrospective of a number of "American Mauves": works by Mauve that almost immediately after their creation were sold to the USA and became part of private collections.

By contributing a total sum of € 60,000 the Turing Foundation will act as the main supporter of both exhibitions, which together will offer the largest retrospective ever of Mauve in the Netherlands.

Rit langs het Scheveningse strand, Anton Mauve, 1976

Main supporter Meijer de Haan retrospective, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, 2009-2010
From 11 October 2009 the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam will present a generous retrospective of the 19th-century artist Meijer de Haan. For the first time in 125 years this exhibition will offer all of Meijer de Haan's works kept in private collections from all over the world as well as from Dutch, French, and American Museums. Apart from Meijer de Haan's oeuvre the exhibition will show works by contemporaries and friends such as Gauguin, Roy, Schuffenecker, Isaacson, Baruch de Laguna and Pothuis.

By contributing € 50,000 the Turing Foundation will act as the main supporter of the exhibition, which will run from 11 October 2009 to 24 January 2010.

see also:
De verborgen meester (JHM) Meijer de Haan, Motherhood , 1889

Meijer de Haan, Motherhood, 1889

The Turing Art Grant
One of the aims of the Turing Foundation is to enable a greater number of people to enjoy art in Dutch museums. This is why in December 2008 the Turing Foundation initiated the Turing Art Grant, a € 450,000 donation to be presented biennially to a single exhibition. In this way the Turing Foundation is able to offer key advance contributions to exhibitions that would otherwise be unlikely to be staged, with works of art that would otherwise only be on view in museums abroad. All Dutch Museums may compete for the new Turing Art Grant. For more information, see the Turing Art Grant Website.

The first Turing Art Grant was granted on May 25, 2009.

see also:
      Tweejaarlijks bedrag voor grote exposities (NRC)
      Turing Foundation lanceert Turing Toekenning (Persbericht)
      Zestien musea dingen mee naar de eerste Turing Toekenning (Persbericht) Turing Art Prize 2009 Photo: Vincent van Gogh, Zelfportret als schilder , 1888 (c)Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Turing Art Prize 2009
Photo: Vincent van Gogh, Zelfportret als schilder, 1888
(c)Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Main Supporter Paris Central, CoBrA Museum, Amstelveen, 2009-2010
The Cobra Movement was established in 1948 in Paris, the capital of European art of that time. In those years, the most important Cobra artists Appel and Jorn became part of a larger European network of (abstract) artists who worked according to the rules of the expressionist school. They are the artists of the post-war 'École de Paris'. In recent years, they have attracted a lot of renewed attention.

The CoBrA Museum continuously brings the works of Cobra artists, their contemporaries and 'kindred spirits' to the notice. In 2009, the museum organises the special exhibition Paris Central, which will focus on the School of Paris and will feature paintings by artists such as Bram and Geer van Velde, Jean Dubuffet and Henri Michaux. Many works originate from leading private and foreign collections.

By donating € 100,000, the Turing Foundation is the main supporter of the exhibition Paris Central, which can be visited from September 2009 until January 2010 in the CoBrA Museum.

see also:
Paris Central - Europese Meesters uit de jaren vijftig Nicolas de stael, Montagne Sainte-Victoire , 1954

Nicolas de stael, Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1954

Main supporter 'Jan Lievens - A Dutch Master Rediscovered', Rembrandthuis Amsterdam, 2009
Jan Lievens was a prodigy child who lived in the seventeenth century. He established himself as an independent master painter when he was only ten years old. His painting greatly influenced the work of Rembrandt. Due to a collaboration with two prestigious American partners (the Washington National Gallery and the Milwaukee Museum of Fine Art), the Rembrandthuis has succeeded in bringing 90 loans from all over the world to the Netherlands for this exhibition. One third of the objects shown in this special exhibition has never before been shown in the Netherlands.

As its main contributor, the Turing Foundation donates € 60,000 to the exhibition Jan Lievens (1607-1674) - A Dutch Master Rediscovered. The exhibition will be held from May 17 to August 9, 2009 at the Amsterdam Rembrandthuis.

Jan Lievens (1607-1674), self-portrait c 1629

Main Supporter Elizabeth Peyton exhibition, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, 2009-2010
The Bonnefanten Museum celebrates its 125th anniversary with several special exhibitions, such as a retrospective on contemporary painter Elizabeth Peyton. Her work has never before been shown in the Netherlands. The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York organises this first comprehensive survey of Peyton's oeuvre. 85 of her paintings can be seen in the Bonnefanten Museum from October 20, 2009 to March 21, 2010.

Since the opportunity of this exhibition of high quality would otherwise have passed the Netherlands, the Turing Foundation as a main sponsor pays the full project costs of € 75,000.

Democrats are more beautiful (after Jonathan Horowitz), 2001,
Coll. Laura and Stafford Broumand

Main Supporter Retrospective Exhibition Jan van Scorel, Centraal Museum Utrecht, 2009
From 21 March to 28 June 2009, the Centraal Museum of Utrecht organises a major retrospective exhibition entitled Jan van Scorel and Utrecht painting. Jan van Scorel (1495-1562) was one of the first Dutch painters to practice the new Renaissance style of painting.

The Turing Foundation is its main sponsor, donating € 80,000 to this special exhibition. see also:
Scorels Roem - Hoe een Utrechtse schilder de Renaissance naar het Noorden bracht
Scorel's Glory - How a Utrecht-based painter brought the Renaissance to the North

Jan van Scorel, Portrait of Agatha van Schoonhoven, 1529

Contemporary Art Exhibition: Not Normal, Beurs van Berlage, 2009-2010
From 11 December 2009 (to 7 March 2010) the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam hosts the manifestation Niet Normaal • Difference on Display. Next to games, movies and documentaries, Not Normal displays many paintings by painters such as Marlene Dumas, Louise Bourgeois, Luc Tuymans, Marc Quinn and Erik van Lieshout. Many of the works shown have not been accessible to Dutch audiences before. The exhibition is a cooperation with the Deutsches Hygiene Museum in Dresden and the Welcome Trust in London.

The Turing Foundation contributes € 100,000 to this exhibition, which will be on display from 11 December 2009 to 7 March 2010. see also:
      De grenzen van lichaam en geest (Volkskrant)
      Kunst ondergeschikt aan hoger doel (NRC Handelsblad)
      Niet normaal, wie bepaalt dat? (De Telegraaf)
      Wie bepaalt de norm? (Trouw)
      Niet Normaal (trendbeheer) Luc Tuymans, Die Diagnostische Blick , 1996

Luc Tuymans, Die Diagnostische Blick, 1996

more painting and exposition projects...

The letters of Vincent van Gogh, 2008-2009

Main supporter of 'Back to Zeeland', Zeeuws Museum, 2008

Main supporter Dutch Primitives: Painters from the Late Middle Ages, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2008

Main supporter Unknown Modern Masterpieces from Moscow, Jewish Historical Museum, 2007-2008

Main supporter 'The De Bray Family', Frans Hals Museum, 2008

Classical music
The Turing Foundation aims to let people in The
Netherlands enjoy live performances of classical music

Music performance Who will tame the king?, 2010-2011
The Apollo Ensemble has specialized in baroque performances played with authentic instruments. In Who will tame the king? the focus is on baroque music for children. The show aims at having children experience the 18th century by performing music by Purcell, Desmas, Bach, Hume and others. There will be 13 family concerts throughout the Netherlands as well as 8 performances at schools in the province of Flevoland.

The Turing Foundation will donate €20,000 to this musical performance developed especially for children.

Muziekvoorstelling Wie temt de Koning?, 2010-2011

Main patronage of the Ricciotti Ensemble 2010-2012
The Ricciotti Ensemble consists of 40 idealistic conservatory students, and performs a minimum of 100 times a year. They seek out the people that are unable to attend live classical performances for different reasons. The Riciotti performs, invited or not, in health care residences, prisons, at schools, in the street and in refugee centres. From 2007-2009 we have been Riciotti's main patron.

By donating €90,000 until the end of 2012, the Turing Foundation will remain main patron of the Riciotti Ensemble's Dutch performances for the next 3 years.

Ricciotti plays in a hospital

Rotterdam Opera days 2010: Alla Turca
The Rotterdam Opera days were founded in 2001 to make opera accessible to everyone. For ten days straight there will be concerts on various stages, in the street and at special venues in the city. For the 2010 edition, the Turing Foundation supports the festival in the realisation of the show Alla Turca by the baroque orchestra B'rock. B'rock is currently a national and international hit. Alla Turca combines oriental music - as westerners used to think it must sound - with Mozart.

The Turing Foundation will donate €10.000 which makes it the main patron of the Alla Turca concert.

Operadagen Rotterdam

The Princess Christina Concours - Classical Express, 2010-2012
The Princess Christina Concours strives to excite as many children as possible for classical music. To that end, in 2007 the Turing Foundation contributed to the development of the Princess Christina Express, a truck that tours schools in the Netherlands to perform classical concerts for children. Due to the overwhelming success, the Classical Express wants to go from 300 to 500 concerts a year in order to reach 12,000 children each year.

The Turing Foundation will donate €60,000 until the end of 2012 for the expansion of the number of school concerts.

Een van de 300 concerten in de Classic Express

Main Supporter of the Community Concerts of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, 2010
'If people do not come to the orchestra, then the orchestra will come to the people.' That is the underlying thought of the extensive programme of activities GO!, launched by the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra (NedPho) in 2005. NedPhO GO! makes classical music more easily accessible to everyone and consists of least 30 concerts a year under the title 'Concerten in de Wijk' (Community Concerts). These concerts take place at unexpected venues for an audience that is - for various reasons - not used to visiting classical concerts. NedPho GO! can be found at the Westerpark, in rest homes, at community events, in hospitals and at festivals anywhere in Amsterdam.

In 2010, just like in the last two years, the Turing Foundation is the main contributor to the NedPhO GO! Community Concerts (€ 20,000 a year).

NedPhO GO! Community Concerts

First Bach Festival, Dordrecht, 2010
The Bach Festival Dordrecht has the ambition to become the first biennial Bach festival in the Netherlands. It will offer 80 to 100 large and small-scale concerts, performed by renowned musicians and recently graduated young talent from home and abroad. The concerts will be performed in- and outdoors, at lunch time, in the middle of the night and at all other times of the day.

The Turing Foundation donates € 20,000 to the first Bach Festival.

1e Bach Festival Dordrecht

Holland Festival 2010: A Tribute to Umm Kulthum
For many years, the Holland Festival has brought the world's best artists to the Netherlands. The 2010 edition of the festival will start with songs by Umm Kulthum, written for the in the region very popular 'Arab Maria Callas'. The songs will be performed by the Egyptian singer Amal Maher. This concert, brought to the Netherlands especially for the Holland Festival, was first performed in 2009 during the Beiteddine Festival of Lebanon.

The Turing Foundation donates € 50,000 to this special musical performance. The foundation made earlier donations to the festival in 2007, 2008 and 2009 and will continue to support it at least until 2012.

Holland Festival 2010: A Tribute to Umm Kulthum

Classical music in..., 2010
Classical music in … was founded to bring free classical music concerts to towns and cities that hardly have any classical music calendar at all. Musicians of ensembles such as the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra will give several concerts. Children in the 7th and 8th grades of primary school will be actively involved in the concerts through the project The Music Box.

By donating € 15,000 the Turing Foundation is the main supporter of this project in the Summer of 2010.

Klassiek aan de... Sluis, Muiden

The Music Factory, school- and family concerts, 2010
Calefax Reed Quintet has given more than 600 concerts in twenty countries since it was founded in 1985. The Times on Calefax: "Calefax - five extremely gifted Dutch Gents who almost made the reed quintet seem the best musical format on the planet." With their Music Factory project, Calefax wants to develop and play a compact 'Out of the Boot Concert' (kofferbakvoorstelling): easy to perform in concert halls and churches, with no complicated technical requirements, props or actors.
The Turing Foundation donates € 15,000 and is the main supporter of 19 concerts for children and young concert goers in 2010-2011.

Calefax Rietkwintet

Chamber Music Concerts for youngsters, Amsterdam
The IJ-Salon is a private initiative by members of the Concertgebouw Orchestra. The foundation wants to make first-rate chamber music accessible to a wide audience by means of concerts in the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ in Amsterdam.

For € 10,000 the Turing Foundation adopts the 'Mini-IJ-Salon': eight school concerts and a family concert that will reach around 800 schoolchildren from carefully selected secondary schools in Amsterdam Zuidoost, Amsterdam West and Krommenie.

Chamber Music Concerts for youngsters, Amsterdam

Bach Day - An Introduction to Bach at Dutch Primary Schools
The three-year project 'Bach Day' (Dag van Bach) focuses on primary schools across the country and introduces children to classical music, musicians and their musical instruments. In the coming three years, the Netherlands Bach Society intends to reach 13,500 pupils with their project, amongst whom many children who would otherwise not necessarily get into contact with classical music. The children will listen to a concert by professional musicians and will be confronted with Bach's music in a very valuable way.

The Turing Foundation makes available € 45,000 for this project until June 2012.

Bach Day - An Introduction to Bach at Dutch Primary Schools

Children's Opera based on Goethe's Faust, by Frank Groothof
Frank Groothof succeeds time and again in enthusing and exciting large groups of children with classical music. The Turing Foundation already made donations to earlier music theatre production of his, amongst which Vincent van Gogh, A Life in Paintings and Gershwin's Porgy & Bess.

The Turing Foundation will support the activities of his production office structurally during the coming years, enabling fifteen extra school performances by donating a yearly sum of € 15,000 until 2011.

Music Theatre Performances Frank Groothof, 2009-2011

Free classical music at the Vondelpark 2009
On several summery Sunday mornings, renowned music societies will give free classical music concerts at the Amsterdam Vondelpark Open Air Theatre. In June, July and August 2009, performances have been scheduled by the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, the Ricciotti Ensemble, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, and possibly the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest and the Atlas Ensemble.

Like in previous years, the Turing Foundation adopts these successful classical music concerts in 2009 by donating € 20,000.

Classical Music Evenings in the Vondelpark

Festival for Shanty Choirs 2009, Den Burg
The 50-headed Oudeschilder Visserskoor sings traditional fishermen's songs, not only at festivities but also in nursing homes and homes for the elderly. Their foundation is organising a festival especially for shanty choirs (the Wadden Shanty Choirs Festival) on 26 June 2010. The Turing Foundation makes a once-only donation of € 5,000 to support a successful first edition of the festival.

Oudeschilders Visserskoor, Texel

Holland Festival 2009: Pitié
Since 1947 the annual Holland Festival has staged a wide array of impressive and high-profile artistic projects from all over the world, including theatre, music, dance, and the plastic arts.

Like in 2007 ('Era La Notte') and 2008 ('La Pasión según San Marcos'), the Turing Foundation will contribute to this year's Holland Festival by supporting Pitié by Les Ballets C de la B. The performance is a fresh 'total experience' of Bach's St Matthew's Passion, pivoting around the much loved 'Erbarme dich' aria. In addition, African influences are explicitly part of the performance. In this way, starting from Bach rather then ending in Bach, the composer becomes liberated from the dominant Western tradition.

The Turing Foundation contributes € 25,000 to the performances, which are scheduled for 11, 12, and 13 June in the Carré Theatre, Amsterdam.

Pitié by Les Ballets C de la B

International wind instruments festival On Wings! 2009
In June 2009 the city of Groningen will stage On Wings!, Holland's first wind instruments festival. Players of wind instruments from home and abroad will perform throughout town. Apart from the many concerts, a wind instruments competition as well as varied peripheral activities will be organised. In order to reach as large an audience as possible, On Wings! has sought collaboration with almost every single cultural platform in town, such as schools of music, concert halls and theatres. In addition, on June 13 Groningen will witness a wide array of free, easily accessible performances of music by Bach in a great number of venues as well as in the streets and in the Station Building.

The Turing Foundation has adopted the activities of Saturday, June 13, by donating € 15.000, so as to make the free Bach concerts possible.

International Festival of Windplaying On Wings!

Brisk Recorder Quartet Amsterdam, 2009-2010
Over the years, the Brisk Recorder Quartet has built a firm reputation, particularly when it comes to performances for children. BRISK is aware, from experience, that school performances allow children who normally remain largely ignorant of classical music, to come into contact with it.

The Turing Foundation contributes € 10,000 to BRISK's new performance for children entitled 'Who ordered the man', aimed at children between the ages of 6 and 10, making possible a total of 30 rather than 18 school performances.

Brisk Recorder Quartet Amsterdam

Matthew Passion by Residentie Bach Ensembles, 2009
Each year, the Residentie Bach Ensembles offer a varied concert programme of classical music, aiming to reach as many young people as possible without damaging the quality of the music. In 2006, their Matthew Passion, adapted and translated into Dutch, became a national hit.

Just like last year, the Turing Foundation will be the main supporter of the performances of the Matthew Passion in 2009 (€ 10,000).

Residentie Bach Choir and Residentie Orchestra

Chamber Opera Festival 2009
Zwolle's Chamber Orchestra Festival is the only festival dedicated exclusively to chamber opera and small-scale musical theatre. For as many as ten days performances from home and abroad, and from baroque to contemporary music will be on offer. In the past, the festival attracted on average 4,500 visitors each year but its aim is to cater for at least 7,500 visitors in the future. In order to achieve this goal the festival will organise free open-air performances, schedule opera productions for and to be performed by young people and set up substantial peripheral activities.

The Turing Foundation will offer a once-only € 20,000 in order to support the festival's activities aimed at broadening its audience.

KamerOpera Festival 2009

Main supporter 'The Orchestra Kitchen'
The Holland Symfonia is one the major Dutch symphony orchestras, acting as the regular accompanist of the Dutch National Ballet and the Nederlands Dans Theater. Developed especially for children, "The Orchestra Kitchen" was set up by Holland Symfonia to display, in a "kitchen setting", a great number of musical compositions. Children are thus given the chance to be introduced to live classical music. The performance is aimed at making, tasting, colouring and listening to music together.

By contributing € 27,500 the Turing foundation will be the main supporter of the performance.

De Orkestkeuken

World Premiere Svadebka! The Village Wedding
Svadebka! De Dorpsbruiloft (The Village Wedding) is the completed version of Stravinsky's unfinished instrumentation of Les Noces by the Dutch composer Theo Verbey, written in 1919. It has never before been performed. For this performance, De Dorpsbruiloft Foundation has acquired the exclusive rights from the Stravinsky heirs. The world premiere of the piece will be staged in 2009 during the opening of the Hermitage in Amsterdam and will be part of the Grachtenfestival. After the Dutch concert series, the production will travel to Saint Petersburg.

The Turing Foundation contributes € 20,000 towards the costs of this project.

Svadebka! The Village Wedding

Main Supporter of the Children's Concert of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Following the success of Benjamin's Orchestra in 2007, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra will in the Spring of 2009 be putting on Händel's 'Music for the Royal Fireworks' in children's adaptation, entitled 'Koninklijk Vuurwerk' in Dutch. The story is based in Händel's house in London, which was closed for years because it was thought to be haunted.

In order to reach even more children this year who would not normally get in touch with classical music, the choice has been made to aim this project expressly at the schools right outside Amsterdam, such as Almere and Purmerend. Transportation by bus is included in the project.

The school concerts are given on February 27, 2009. After that, two public concerts will be organised on March 1. As the main supporter of the project, the Turing Foundation contributes € 30,000 to the children's concerts.

The Children's Concert of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Opera per Tutti - Opera for everybody
Opera per Tutti puts on operas of good quality in an informal atmosphere. Parts of well-known or less famous operas are performed in a light-hearted way, while no harm is being done to the quality of the performance. The music performed and the corresponding plots are briefly explained to the audience. The founders want to offer opera on a weekly basis in informal concert locations. Opera per Tutti thus organises weekly performances in the Vondelkerk in Amsterdam, offering a mix of professional opera singers and students of the Nieuwe Opera Academie and the conservatories of Amsterdam and The Hague. The performances attract opera lovers from all over the country.

The Turing Foundation contributes € 20,000 to the activities of Opera per Tutti in the 2008/2009 season.

Opera per Tutti

more music projects...

Main Supporter of the Community Concerts of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, 2009

Main patronage of the Ricciotti Ensemble 2009

Haaglanden Chamber Music Festival 2008

The Amsterdam Cello Biennale 2008

Noorderkerk Concerts: Marketplace for Music 2008

Delft Chamber Music Festival 2008

Poetry
The Turing Foundation aims to let people in The Netherlands
enjoy publications and recitals of Dutch poetry.

Poetry in literary magazine De Gids 2010
The Dutch cultural and literary magazine De Gids has already been published for 170 years. Its aim is to promote literature and to stimulate the Dutch cultural and social debate. De Gids holds a unique position within the Dutch literary circles and prints in each issue prose and poetry next to essays on art, science and politics. Once a year, De Gids devotes a special issue to poetry.

Just like last two years the Turing Foundation adopts the poetry section and special poetry issues of De Gids in 2010 (€ 10,000).

A special poetry issue of De Gids

Main supporter National Poetry Day 2010-212
Every year, National Poetry Day ('Gedichtendag') puts poetry in the national spotlight. On 28 January 2010 over three hundred poetry-related activities will take place (lectures, recitals, school and library projects, et cetera). Newspapers will publish poetry and poems will be recited on radio, TV and even in the House of Commons. The Poetry Day Collection (this year with poems by poet Tsjebbe Hettinga) will be published in a large run and sold against a low price.

By donating € 90,000, the Turing Foundation is the main contributor of National Poetry Day in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

Poetry Day 2010

Main supporter Warenar by P.C. Hooft, 2010
The ambition of theatre company De Kale is to make classical poets and old Dutch texts accessible to a large Dutch audience. De Kale will present P.C. Hooft's poem Warenar in the Muiderslot Castle. With this project De Kale Foundation especially intends to reach secondary school students. Their aim is to make 600 pupils familiar with the poetry of P.C. Hooft and in such way fire up their interest in poetry in general.

By donating € 10,000, the Turing Foundation is the main sponsor of this project.

Warenar by P.C. Hooft in castle Muiderslot

The Turing National Poetry Competition 2010
On 21 April 2009 the Turing National Poetry Competition was launched. This is the first national poetry competition that is open to anyone over 16 and focuses, first of all, on poetry, not on the poet. The concept originated in the UK where over many years similar initiatives have helped promote the interest in poetry, well-known poets, and new talent. The competition is being organised by the Dutch Poëzieclub.

The best 100 poems will be published in a special anthology, introduced by Gerrit Komrij. The authors of the best 10 poems will be invited by Augustus publishers to submit a manuscript to be considered for publication. The winning poet will receive a € 10,000 prize.

Chair of the jury is Gerrit Komrij. Dutch Poet Laureate Ramsy Nasr will serve as ambassador of the competition.

Over the next five years the Turing Foundation will set aside € 250,000 for the Turing National Poetry Competition, of which € 70,000 is earmarked for the start up year 2009.

The Turing National Poetry Competition

Poetry anthologies 2009-2011
Publishing house Van Oorschot is planning to publish twelve beautifully printed hardcover anthologies in the course of four years. These anthologies feature the very best poems by excellent Dutch poets - who may be in danger of being forgotten by the general public - edited and applauded by enthusiastic and well-known anthologists. Websites on the series will be developed, and people can take out free subscriptions to a daily poem by e-mail from the anthologies. In this way, Van Oorschot aims to reach a new and modern reading public. The most recent anthologies in the series feature M. Vasalis and Jan Hanlo.

By donating € 60,000, the Turing Foundation adopts the whole series by Van Oorschot, thereby achieving a selling price that brings the anthologies within easy access of most buyers.

The first anthologies in 2009

more poetry projects...

Poetry in literary magazine De Gids 2009

Main supporter National Poetry Day 2009

Poetry Circus 2008

Van Oorschot poetry anthologies 2008

De Week van de Poëzie 2008 ('First Love')

38th Poetry International Festival